Rufus and unetbootin stopped working for me several years ago I assume uefi
was the reason but I just moved on
current working usb media creation tools
GUI
ubuntu 18.04 statup disk creator works for almost any distro
Multisystem ISO --install in french google translate will mess up the
commands. It install a grub menu that works with all distros I tested but
it seems to install either grub2 or grub-efi based on what the machine you
built it on has
so I just carry 2 usb's one
for each. the cool part is you use with as many distros as your usb can
hold. swiss army knife of installers
http://liveusb.info/dotclear/index.php?pages/install
CLI
dd always works but shows it is done but actually still writing so walk
away and let it complete or watch disk activity but never remove when you
get the prompt
sudo dd if=installmedia.iso of=/dev/rdiskX bs=1m
On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 5:07 PM Michael Butash <
michael@butash.net> wrote:
> I have had almost nothing but issues booting various distro on usb drives,
> why I still keep a trusty usb cdrom and floppy around. It's the only great
> equalizer.
>
> Last time I tried unetbootin, it wouldn't write the disk label properly on
> the usb drive to boot arch linux on weirdly, as just how it tends to want
> to boot. I just burned the damn thing to a cdrom, it worked. I still do
> this with arch installs.
>
> My stack of 100 dvd's I purchased 20 years ago will probably disintegrate
> soon before I use them all, but so far hooray for legacy technology to keep
> it real.
>
> Booting clonezilla in a virtualbox vm is pretty painless/quick. Download
> image, launch vm to boot off iso, bridge it to a laptop port, and crossover
> ethernet cable to whatever he wants to image or boot an install cd from,
> set bios on remote to pxe boot. I had a clonezilla server vm on my laptop
> with multiple distro boot iso's loaded like 10 years ago, I just didn't
> have need to use it much to keep the space it needed and updating it.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 4:44 PM Bob Elzer <bob.elzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> wouldn't it be easier to create a bootable usb drive using unetbootin?
>>
>> https://unetbootin.github.io/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 4:24 PM Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd check out clonezilla bootable images, I've booted a server on a vm
>>> and started imaging other vms with it before, it's pretty cool. Using the
>>> lite-server might add a quickie option to get it booted over the network.
>>> Note: this puts a dhcp on your network, which will probably conflict with
>>> your lan router, so use a crossover cable if possible or a separate
>>> switch/vlan.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/11_lite_server
>>> https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-SE/
>>>
>>> -mb
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 3:43 PM Harold Hartley <wheelie207@ownmail.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Download an image for installing over network from whatever distro you
>>>> want to use. Then burn it to cd and install on computer and it will run and
>>>> connect to the the distro site and will start to install the files.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, at 15:31, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've never installed _anything_ over the network.
>>>>
>>>> Can you give me a solid tutorial to follow?
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 11:44 AM Harold Hartley <wheelie207@ownmail.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > __
>>>> > It won’t recognize the usb ssd unless you upgrade the bios.
>>>> >
>>>> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, at 11:41, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:
>>>> >> The internal drive is recognized by the BIOS, but fails to spin up.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The Laptop was built in 2009 by Puget Systems (
>>>> https://www.pugetsystems.com/), so yes, the hardware is old, but I
>>>> highly doubt it's "Too Old" for Linux. I found another USB SSD I bought the
>>>> same time as the laptop, so I'm going to try and format that and see if it
>>>> works as a bootable device.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Trying to get CentOS 7 on it, but I'm flirting with the idea of
>>>> trying Manjaro on it.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 10:50 Matthew Gibson <
>>>> guanjun.de.geliqian@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >> > Does it have the ability to boot from network? Didn't you say that
>>>> the laptop has an internal DVD/CD drive? Could your install media need to
>>>> be locked in some way after the burn is complete? Is the ISO too new to
>>>> work with old hard ware?
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > These are a few of my thoughts. I'll see if I can find my own
>>>> drives to burn a disc for you.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 8:57 AM Snyder, Alexander J <
>>>> alexander@snyderfamily.co> wrote:
>>>> >> >> I wasn't able to go to Installfest, we had guests.
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> After they left, I went hunting in the garage and found an old
>>>> DVD-R (USB). I went to Best Buyand got a few blank DVDs. So, it won't read
>>>> from a 2019 USB-SSD, but it'll boot from a ~2015 USB-DVD drive?
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> I can get into the CentOS 7 setup but it fails to verify the
>>>> media, and refuses to continue. When I skip verify, it still fails by
>>>> saying the media is not fit for install.
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> So now I'm really confused.
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> Thanks,
>>>> >> >> Alexander
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> Sent from my Galaxy S10+
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019, 08:43 Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >> >>> On 2019-08-03 10:49, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:
>>>> >> >>> > Does anyone have a bootable Linux CD?
>>>> >> >>> > I don't have a burner, or discs. So I'm asking for help!
>>>> >> >>> > Can someone burn CentOS7 minimal for me?
>>>> >> >>>
>>>> >> >>> Did you get a CD from Installfest? If not, I have a DVD+-RW and
>>>> a CD-R
>>>> >> >>> blank somewhere around here. Reply with your snail-mail address
>>>> if you
>>>> >> >>> still need help.
>>>> >> >>>
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